The inhabitants of Skotussa woke up to yet another morning of downpour and fog.
The inclement weather was unusual for this time of year in Thessaly.
The local agora was deserted, the marketplace and shops closed.
As most residents chose to stay inside.
The lone fixture in the empty amphitheater were a group of local children running around the stage, wooden swords in their hands, feathers and plumes stuck in their hats, all imitating their legendary hero, Alexander the Great.
But their play was cut short.
as ground tremors could be felt throughout the town.
Tremors soon turned into a rumble, as just to the east, the armies of Philip of Macedon and Flamininus race towards Scotuzza, where they intended to do battle to end the second Macedonian war.
Roughly one century before the Battle of Cinnocephaly, Macedon, under the young king Alexander the Great, conquered the entirety of the Persian Empire in just a few years, taking revenge for their previous encounters on the Greek mainland.
But after all of those achievements, Alexander died in 323 B.C. at just 32 years old, after the Macedonian Empire collapse, a series of conflicts started to happen between Alexander the Great's generals over the rule of his vast empire following the king's death, the generals established local Greek dynasties in Greece, Egypt, Persia, and Asia Minor, that became rivals.
